Friday, June 7, 2013

Fresh Strawberry Cupcakes with Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting

We have some special visitors coming to our house this weekend - Samantha and Baby Kate are going to be spending the night with us! I'm planning a fun Cinderella movie night - the girls will be making their own pizzas and rice krispies with sprinkles.

I wanted them to have another treat, too, for when they arrived so she knows how excited we are to have her. Sam's a girly girl and loves anything with icing, so I thought these strawberry cupcakes would completely delight her. And, after our trip to the Strawberry Patch we had to find a way to use all of our strawberries...

Here are some of our fresh from the field strawberries. Many of the other pickers were picking 2 and 3 flats of berries, but as I said in our post, our trip to the berry patch was more about Emma having fun, so when she was done, we were done... which resulted in about 3 pounds. Just enough to eat all we wanted and enough for this batch of strawberries.

Prepare cake as directed then mix in diced strawberries. Pour batter into paper-lined cupcake tins. Bake as directed. Let cool.For frosting, mix together butter and cream cheese until smooth, then add powdered sugar and strawberries. Mix on medium for 3-4 minutes. When cupcakes are cool, frost generously and top with a strawberry. Refrigerate.

I added just a drop of red food coloring to the batter because otherwise the baked strawberries make a brown colored cupcake.

The fresh strawberries makes the frosting just to the perfect color of pale pink... no food coloring needed!

6 comments:

Thanks Jenny! I can't wait to get home tonight to try and make these! I have a question about your sugar cookie recipe... mine always turn out really flat and thus crispy.... any suggestions on what I may be doing wrong?

My sister made these this past weekend. They were AMAZING! (She under baked by a minute or two.) They were so moist and the frosting was perfect. One of the best cupcakes I've ever had! :) Thanks for the recipe!

Jenny, these cupcakes are AMAZING! They are easy and always such a hit when I make them. My daughter is requesting a strawberry cake for her birthday. Do you think this would do well as a cake? Any advice on making it into a cake?